Kira Makagon

Kira Makagon is an enterprise software expert with vast experience in the cloud, mobile and adtech space. As EVP of Innovation at RingCentral, she spearheads product management, strategy, engineering and operations. Prior to RingCentral, she founded Red Aril, and co-founded or held executive positions at Octane Software and Scopus Technology.

There’s no denying we’re in the midst of a cloud craze – but, behind all the hype, is cloud adoption really imperative? How much of the cloud buzz is fabrications of possible benefits, and how much of it is reality? To decipher what’s true and what’s false, I’ve put together a list of ...

The active number of devices connected to the Internet of Things was a considerable 2.5 billion in 2014 – and some analysts project this number will grow three times over, to 9 billion, in only four years. Gartner estimates we’ll create an even higher number of connected devices: 26 bi...